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143
Lot
144
Lot
SRS SAMANTHA 3159A
143
tattoo: SRS3159A birth: 1/26/13 reg #: P688626
Optimizer Heifer
CONNEALY DANNY BOY
SRS SAINT 0218S
SRS JULIET 0218M
SRS UPRISING 0059U
SRS HIGHTECH 9059H
SRS KYLA 0059K
SRS GENTRY 9758G
SRS FOCUS 9403F
SRS NEVADA 9378N
RAIN LASS 207
SRS SAMANTHA 0671S
SRS MAGIC 4114M
SRS POTOSI 0458P
SRS LOTUS 0147L
Birth
205
Wean
American Salers EPDs
Weight
Weight
Ratio
BW WW YW MWW Milk
86 634 109 +1.4 +50 +102 +43 +18
POLLED 48.40% BLACK
• A powerful Uprising daughter that is super fancy
• The dam is a eye appealing cow that consistently produces
great calves
SRS LUCY 3137A
144
tattoo: SRS3137A birth: 1/27/13 reg #: P688610
Optimizer Heifer
SRS SAINT 0218S
SRS UPRISING 0059U
SRS KYLA 0059K
PRK YELLOWSTONE 966Y
SRS SEQUEL 0122S
PRK RECIPE 966W
SRS RECIPE 0796T
SRS FOCUS 9403F
SRS NEVADA 9378N
RAIN LASS 207
SRS LUCY 0935W
V D A R AMBUSH 1465 S A F
SRS LUCY 0149L
SRS SENSATION 9329C
Birth
205
Wean
American Salers EPDs
Weight
Weight
Ratio
BW WW YW MWW Milk
80 611 104 +0.3 +49 +97 +42 +17
POLLED 49.60% BLACK
• A fancy, thick made heifer that could compete at any level
• The dam is a moderate Nevada daughter that is super clean
made and excellent uddered
Optimizer Heifers
“A GOAL WITHOUT A PLAN IS JUST A WISH”
On a billboard in Nebraska you will find this statement. A friend, customer, and colleague in the cattle business
Scott Brady from Kearney, Nebraska told me he had seen this. Both he and I appreciate the meaning of this
statement. In our cattle programs we have a goal and try to apply a plan.
At Skinner Ranch Seedstock our goal is to raise cattle that are medium framed, long, deep bodied, with width of
top, and a lot of long muscle in the rear quarters (not short tight wound) with balance and eye appeal. They need
to have a lot of length from hooks to pins and low wide pin bones. They must be genetics with a balanced udder
structure and small teats. Intelligence and workable dispositions are a must. They need to be fertile, have calving
ease with the right pelvic structure, and excellent performance. Carcass traits are important since we are in the
beef business. These cattle have to be labor efficient since in the cattle business today most of us have to run
operations without enough labor. These traits all add up to a balanced animal.
Our plan is to build a herd of cows with these traits. We feel that you build a great cow and the bulls will come
if you pick sires with these traits. All of us have seen cows that continually bring home a good calf with every
bull she has been mated with. Granted, some are better depending on the bull she was mated with. The point
is, that cow does a good job every time. This is why you need a bull that sires excellent females. We feel that
the cow has more input to the calf than the bull. She carries the calf for 270 plus days and during that time there
is fetal programming in addition to her half of the genes she contributes to the calf. Fetal programming is the
development of traits like marbling, muscling and fertility. These are affected by their nutrition and trace minerals
during pregnancy, even in the first trimester. Therefore that cow with the right metabolism and the desire to climb
the mountains in Montana and other areas to get feed is important. When she takes her heifer calf with her and
teaches that calf to find the good feed it is a benefit to your replacement heifers the rest of their lives. We can’t
raise chickens and hogs on those mountains tops! Therefore we feel that cow contributes more than 50%.
We at Skinner Ranch Seedstock believe that uniformity builds predictability.
We want all the cows, whether Angus, Salers or Optimizer, to fit the same mold. Utilizing sires that fit that same
“mold” for generations will create uniformity in customers’ calf crops. Uniformity is eye appealing and sells well
whether it is apples in a supermarket or our customer’s calves.
